The day before heading to federal prison, an unrepentant Rod Blagojevich held a press conference on Wednesday to say that he was preparing for the start of a “dark and hard journey” that he called “the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”
“I am proud as I leave and enter the next part of what is a dark and hard journey that I can take with me the sense of accomplishment and the real belief that the things I did as governor and the things I did as congressman have actually helped real, ordinary people,” Blagojevich said outside of his Chicago home, surrounded by the media and a mob of vocal supporters.
“When I became governor I fought a lot — and maybe I fought too much — and maybe one of the lessons to this whole story is that you’ve got to be maybe a little bit more humble. You can never have enough humility and maybe I could’ve had more of that,” he added.
An unemotional Blagojevich addressed the media for about 15 minutes in front of his Ravenswood Manor home in Chicago in the final hours before he will report to federal prison — likely Englewood, a low-security facility in Littleton, Colo., located 15 miles southwest of Denver — on Thursday to begin serving his 14-year sentence for corruption.
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